How to Teach Kids About Words Ending in 'Y'

Video Transcript

"About this time we'll start to introduce y at the end of a word. Now what sound does y make, ask your child. Yuh, however at the end of the word it makes the sound eeee, and so we throw some words up there, happy, silly, snappy. Now the first thing, as soon as you teach them about the e sound at the end, teach them about the double consonants because they pop up a lot, especially in words ending in y. Teach them, they will want to say ha p p ee and you teach them when you see two consonants that are exactly the same together you only say their sound once. So that will be ha p ee, not ha p p ee and si l ee, not si l l ee, and the other thing to notice, you can start to throw in some other things that they've learned already. I've put a blend if you noticed, sn is a blend, snappy, and go on like that. Try to avoid words like crazy or words that use rules that you haven't learned yet like happily or anything you can think of, make sure that the vowels are still short vowels in each case."